Alexis Richardson

manager of configurations

RabbitMQ/VMware/Spring/Pivotal/CNCF/Weaveworks/ConfigHub

DMs open

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

How very very sad.

Marjane was a true artist and advocate for Iranian women and freedom.

She disrupted literature with her wildly successful autobiographical graphic novel, Persepolis.

AFP reports she died of sadness a year after losing her husband, the love of her life.

RIP

[Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي @NTarnopolsky]

Terrible news: Marjane Satrapi, brilliant Franco-Iranian author of Persepolis, is dead at 56. https://t.co/kodGbGFjXc

[James Heale @JAHeale]

“The only difference between Westminster and The Thick Of It is that in The Thick Of It people don’t go around saying ‘this is just like something out of The Thick Of It’.”

[quibble @QuibbleUK]

Hello, we are Jonathan and Abigail - unashamed pedants who want to bring this affliction to bear on all things public policy and practice.
We believe that details matter, especially in public administration. This is why today we are founding quibble: a campaign to fix the small stuff.
Think, for example, about the cookie banner that we click on every webpage. Each instance is not a big deal, so we just put up with it. But its cumulative impact adds up - on average we press it 5 times per day. The European Commission estimates that it costs EU citizens 343 million hours per year.
And who is there to represent the impacts of seemingly minor issues like this in a systematic way? We want quibble to be the answer. In the case of the cookie banner, lots of advocacy has rightly focused on privacy, but has this meant that user experience has taken a backseat? We believe there are ways to improve user experience without compromising on privacy. We will share more about this soon.
Consider another example. Did you know that in some government-run car parks you can be fined for a minor keying error, such as accidentally typing a zero instead of an “o”? Again, we will come to the detail of this quibble in the coming weeks, but for now just consider again the question: who? Who is there currently to systematically represent the interests of the parker who is given an unfair ticket?
An inherent feature of consumer interests is that those who have them rarely have enough other things in common to make collective organisation and representation feasible. This is the gap that quibble seeks to fill. Now of course excellent consumer interest groups exist. But understandably quibbles might not be at the top of their lists. Our hope is that quibble will be complementary; picking up the bottom-of-the-list issues faced by various groups - the stuff they are almost too embarrassed to raise because they are too small.
We are not embarrassed about detail. If you’ve ever had a splinter, you know small things can have a big impact. This is what quibble is committed to tackling, and our wider hope is that by doing so we will also incentivise policy makers to be even more careful about detail.
Check out our website here, including our first four campaigns: https://t.co/gZiqqHbhIL

[Alexis Richardson @monadic]

not sure what US democrats goal is here.. "we only support extremists"?

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is wanted by the International Criminal Court for the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

Yet here he is marching in New York City today with Chuck Schumer and other Democrats.

There is no bottom to the abyss that is Zionism.

[So Real Foods @sorealfoods]

The "largest osobuco in Buenos Aires" - a signature item from El Club del Progreso in Buenos Aires 🇦🇷

© elprogresorestaurante

[Alexis Richardson @monadic]

They keep doing this. So do anthropic. Maybe it's a/b testing. But really annoying and stupid

[Simon Willison @simonw]

I'm really upset about this: OpenAI's Codex Desktop had a "Copy as Markdown" option for exporting full chat transcripts, but the feature vanished in an update a couple of days ago

Genuinely my single favorite feature of Codex compared to Claude Code
https://t.co/nk3yiPXHxL

[Son Luong @sluongng]

Codex just found a “workaround” of not having sudo on my pc…

[David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense @davereaboi]

Leonard Cohen and Sonny Rollins playing “Who By Fire” on NBC’s one of a kind Nightmusic (1989). We have the late Hal Wilner and David Sanborn to thank for dreaming up and producing the greatest music show that’s ever been on tv.

[teresa smith @treesey]

Longest laugh deservedly won by @Daily_Record front page

[Matthew Lesh @matthewlesh]

Andy Burnham's response to Tony Blair, just published in @thetimes, is a pretty frightening reflection on the man now at the front of the pack to be the next Prime Minister.

He understands the public's frustrations, but lacks a serious plan to fix Britain, instead leaning into boring old tropes.

⬇️

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

“Russia can’t afford to continue the war on its current trajectory because it will face the trap of diminishing resources,” said Oleksandr V. Danylyuk, chairman of the Center for Defense Reforms in Kyiv and a former Ukrainian defense and intelligence official. “This means that Putin will have to escalate. He can do it vertically, by increasing the intensity of violence, including through nuclear blackmail but without any real use of the nuclear weapons. And he can do it horizontally, by expanding the geography of the conflict as he seeks to freeze the war on better terms.”

https://t.co/FRlzzCMnGV

[Alice @AliceFromQueens]

Damn Mamdani really is a radical extr--checks notes--pro-market abundance liberal

[Jason Warner @jasoncwarner]

In-depth on Laguna M.1 and XS.2.

Also walking through our Model Factory more. The MF is the infra that allows Poolside the speed and quality needed to build models today and well into the future.

[The General @GeneralMCNews]

BREAKING: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the people of Ukraine are nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.

[critter @BecomingCritter]

how it started how it's going

[Dr Elaine Cox 🍃 💚 🍃🌽🥬🐦‍⬛🐌🇬🇧 @ElaineCox11]

Uncut grass keeps the ground at around 19.5°C
Grass cut to 10 cm raises the ground temperature to about 24.5°C
Bare ground in the middle of summer rises to over 40°C
It's important to raise awareness #NoMowMay

[Alexis Richardson @monadic]

Psychopathic racist mofo

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Only Restore Britain can save Britain

[Jonathan Gorard @getjonwithit]

New project: a coding and formal verification agent for computational physics and applied mathematics.
Auto-generate type-correct DSL code for equations and numerical schemes, autoformalize correctness properties in Lean/Isabelle/Rocq, then compile down to provably-correct C code

[Police Scotland @PoliceScotland]

On Monday, 25 May, 2026 at the High Court in Edinburgh Peter Murrell was convicted of embezzling funds from the Scottish National Party.

Read more 👉🏻 https://t.co/C826c5Vy6D